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Health officials investigate state's second staph infection case
By Antonio Prado
Community News
Posted Sep 03, 2010 @ 04:32 PM
Wilmington, Del. ?
A New Castle County female became the second Delawarean to develop the rare vancomycin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) infection.
Delaware's Division of Public Health (DPH) confirmed test results on Thursday, Sept. 2. A press release was sent out Friday, Sept. 3.
The Division of Public Health is not identifying the victim to protect her rights, DPH spokeswoman Jennifer Wooleyhand said. The federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information.
The first case, another female, was positively identified in April 2010, Wooleyhand said. The state has not released the county that she lives in.
According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this brings the national case number to 12. The CDC is conducting further tests of this latest case...
Health officials investigate state's second staph infection case
By Antonio Prado
Community News
Posted Sep 03, 2010 @ 04:32 PM
Wilmington, Del. ?
A New Castle County female became the second Delawarean to develop the rare vancomycin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) infection.
Delaware's Division of Public Health (DPH) confirmed test results on Thursday, Sept. 2. A press release was sent out Friday, Sept. 3.
The Division of Public Health is not identifying the victim to protect her rights, DPH spokeswoman Jennifer Wooleyhand said. The federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information.
The first case, another female, was positively identified in April 2010, Wooleyhand said. The state has not released the county that she lives in.
According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this brings the national case number to 12. The CDC is conducting further tests of this latest case...